The Shared Visual Language of the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics

People covering their faces with masks. Cities opening makeshift hospitals. Society thrown into upheaval by a mysterious new virus. These scenes sound like the Covid-19 pandemic, but they’re also the same ones that played out during the 1918 flu—a much deadlier outbreak that attacked even the young and healthy, ultimately claiming more than 50 million […]